THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 89, No. 97
Monday, February 29, 1979
Regents allow late tuition fees See story page eight
Lawrence. Kansas
Viets intercept Chinese; Russia denounces attack
TOKYO (AP) — Vietnam claimed today that it had intercepted all prongs of a Chinese attack on five northern provinces, killing more than 1,000 Chinese troops and destroying about 60 Chinese tanks in two days of firing.
It said the main action was in Hoang Lien Sonn, Cao Bang and Lang Son provinces.
"Many columns of Chinese aggressor troops were intercepted and are being encircled in deadly attacked," said the Vietnam National Guard in Bangkok.
The agency earlier said Chinese planes had bombed factories, power plants and communications facilities in the north Sunday. The United States military says the attack was a "clear attack."
An air-raid alert was ordered in Hanoi, 80 miles from the Chinese border. Japan's Kyoto news agency reported, but Vietnam's radio said the capital was calm and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese civilians were evacuated. Chinese forces crossed the border Saturday alone a 450-mile front.
RADIO HANOI said Vietnamese troops had killed about 250 Chinese and destroyed or damaged 46 tanks in fierce battles in Vietnam's northern provinces. It said the Chinese had occupied 11 towns and villages in all five border provinces.
The Soviet Union warmed China to withdraw its troops "before it is too late" and said it would "honor its obligations" to Hanoi under any circumstances.
But the announcement seemed to indicate Moscow would not intervene, at least for now. It said, "The heroic Vietnamese people, which has become the victim of fresh aggression, is capable of standing up for itself this time again."
TASS SAID China had sent "many infantry divisions" backed by tanks and artillery into Vietnam and that the Chinese were "barbarianly shelling border towns" and committing attacks on insurgents in enormous material damage and human casualties.
The claims could not be verified.
The number of Chinese troops in Vietnam was not known. U.S. military analysts said the Chinese had amassed a large number of soldiers border, while the Vietnamese had about 50,000 soldiers deployed in an arc north of Hanoi. The Vietnamese apparently set up their first line of defense well back from the coast, and their officers outmost closer to the frontier.
Much of Vietnam's 600,000-man army is thought to be in southern Vietnam. About 100,000 Vietnamese troops who took part in the offensive that ousted the Chinese-backed Cambodian government and with a regime supported by Hanoi reportedly are Cambodia.
A LARGE portion of China's estimated 3.3 million-man army reportedly is stationed along its 5,000-mile-long border with the
The Vietnam News Agency called Chinese troops, tanks and planes had driven up to six miles into Vietnam, attacking at least one provincial capital and occupying Vietnamese border posts and villages along the length of the front. Vietnam said earlier the Chinese had penetrated as deep as 30 miles into Vietnam. The discrepancy was not explained yesterday.
Peking said it had launched the "counterattack" in retaliation for repeated "armed incursions" into China by Vietnamese forces. Peking's official Hsinshun news agency said Chinese forces would return to the frontier" after hitting back at the aggressors as far as
U. S. OFFICIALS, working with intelligence reports described as "quite good," said yesterday they had no evidence that China
Although one senior official said it was impossible to determine when Peking would halt its invasion, it was thought the Chinese-Vietnamese fighting was not likely to develop into a worldwide crisis.
Despite Moscow's sharp warning to Peking, U.S. officials said they saw no evidence that Soviet involvement in the Chinese-
Vietnamese fighting would threaten the United States' immediate interests.
"The security of American allies in Asia does not seem to be threatened by the conflict," said the present spokesman Ania Stockman.
"NORMALIZATION WITH THE People's Republic of China holds. The fighting doesn't come into our diplomatic recognition of
In an official explanation to the United Nations, China maintained it had launched the attack "to defend the country's borders." It said the Vietnam had ignored warnings and repeated attacks" and had "continually sent armed forces to encourage on Chinese territory."
Hospital funds anticipated
By PATRICIA MANSON
Staff Reporter
members of the Kansas Board of Regents seem optimistic that the Legislature will appropriate money for the renovation of E.B. Allen Hospital, the Wichita branch of the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Jordan Haines, a Regent, said Saturday, "I wouldn't assure anyone we will get the money, but I think the opinion of the chairman is the strongest."
Frank Lowman, chairman of the board, said, "I think the Legislature recognizes the need for expansion. We are recommending a site at the suggestion of the Legislature, so it shouldn't be a surprise to them."
The University of Kansas and the Board of Regents this winter investigated possible sites for the Wichita branch at the request of the university.
THE BUILD voted Friday at its monthly meeting to keep the branch in E.B. Allen and to expand and renovate the hospital. The cost of expanding and operating E.B. Allen and for 20 years has been estimated at $17.2 million by KU officials.
State Sen. John Chandier, R-Holton, a member of the Public Health and Welfare Committee, said, "Assuming the governor signs the bill and we have a 7 percent lift, the renovation will have to be weighted against other appropriations. It will rise or fall on its
However, a spending bill bill recently passed by the Legislature may cut back funds for the hospital. The bill, which Gov. John Carlin has said he may veto, would limit increases in government spending to 7 percent each year. The board has requested $425 million for the seven Regents' schools for 1980, a 12 percent increase from the 1979 budget.
JAMES LOWMAN, dean of the School of Medicine, said the lid would not cause KU to change its plans for expansion E.B. Allion
"We think E.B. Alen is the most economical way to go," he said. Gleeson Smith R., a Regent, said, "There weren't any other sites as accessible."
Sedgwick County, which owns E.B. Allen, has agreed to sell the hospital to the state for $1. Smith said the county had agreed to the low cost because it has become too expensive for the county to maintain the hospital.
"They decided they wanted to get out of the business of running a county hospital." Smith said.
Smith said there were other advantages of keeping the branch in E.B. Allen besides the relatively low cost. The hospital is in a central location in downtown Wichita, he said, and the state will not have to pay the cost of moving to another building.
Sedgwick County must transfer the ownership title of E.B. Allen to the state before renovation can begin. The county also has agreed to move more than 30 indigent patients to private hospitals before the state takes over.
Members of the board said that renovation probably would not begin until July.
Frank Lowman said the initial appropriation expected from the Legislature would be used to improve the heating and air conditioning systems, install energy conservation devices and put a new roof on the hospital.
Fate of spending lid still unclear
IN OTHER business, the Regents voted to request additional money from the Legislature for the Kansas Medical Scholarship Program even though a bill before the Kansas Senate would abolish the program.
The scholarship program allows medical students to waive a
Seg REGENTS backage
TOPEKA—All indications are that Gov. John Carlin will veto a Republican-backed spending bill bill today or tomorrow, touching off a furious battle for approval from Kansas voters and state Democratic legislators.
By GENE LINN
PROPONENTS OF the current legislation said last week that local officials might use property tax relief funds to increase expenditures instead of lowering property taxes.
Staff Reporter
A second reason Carlin opposes the present bill is that it would not allow surplus state funds to be used to ease local property taxes. Expenditures for such relief would have to come out of spending covered by the lid.
Carlin said last week that he supported the concept of a spending lid bill, but has gone on record against the three major provisions in the present legislation.
The bill, which passed the Kansas Legislature last Thursday, would limit spending increases from the state's general fund to 7 percent a year.
In his budget speech last month, Carlin onosed setting a specific limit on spending.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said recently that Republicans were trying to force Carlin to raise taxes so they could criticize him in the next election campaign.
The bill mandates that at least 8 percent of the anticipated spending for the coming fiscal year be left in the treasury at the end of the year.
However, Carlin has labeled property taxes, "regressive" and "unfair" and has proposed sending $30.8 million to the local level to relieve them.
Carlin said in his budget message he wanted a 10 percent cushion at the end of the year in case revenues fell short of expectations.
The House appears more likely to sustain the vet than does the Senate. The House approved the bill 71-32. Carlin would need 42 votes in the senate. In the vet, the Senate passed the bill 31-1.
Finally, Carlin said, the bill does not provide for a large enough surplus.
If Carlin vetoes the bill, he has said, he will take his case to the Legislature and to the Senate.
If reserves get too low, he said, a general tax increase might be necessary.
HOWEVER, CARLIN seems to think he
has a chance to sustain a veto in both the Senate and the House, in spite of the possibility that Democrats might be reluctant to kill spending-lid legislation.
Carlin told a gathering of Kansas Democrats Saturday that he was also going to explain his stand on spending lid legislation to the citizens of Kansas.
"A lot of legislators don't understand the mechanics of the bill," he said at his press conference. "We've made considerable changes when we sat down and talked to them."
IF CARLN persuades the Legislature to sustain his veto, he may promote his own spending bill bill based on a bill proposed by former Gov. Robert Docking.
"At least in a small way, I'm going to take this show on the road," he said.
That bill does not contain the provisions that are objectionable to Carlin in the Constitution.
However, he may have difficulty introducing the bill in the Republican-controlled Legislature this late in the session. Republicans have said they would try to block the introduction of any other spending bill.
Down and out
KU's big chance for victory Saturday against K-State came as Paul Mogleki was fouled with two seconds left in the game.
Mokesi skipped his free throw and on the rebound, Mac Stallcup fouled K-state's Ed Neally, who抽 two free throws to clinch the game.
Iranian students want Americans to learn truth of their revolution
Rv BRUCE THOMAS
Staff Renorter
The media have told Americans that the strife in Iran is a civil war. To Iranians it is the struggle of a nation's people for freedom. They call it "the revolution."
But Iranian students could not get news they trusted about the revolution until a radio station called the Voice of Islam, according to the United States a week ago.
Since Tuesday this daily broadcast from Iran has been taped and then played for Iranian students at the language lab in Wescoe Hall.
"We are free now. Before there was no freedom of speech, writing or religion; there was no freedom of anything." Hossein Mahallati, Shiraz, Iran, senior, said Saturday. "The first sign of our freedom is this national flag. It is surprisingly free."
Each afternoon at 3:50 Iranian students fill one section of the lab and listen to the
Then they pass the news to other Iranian students at KU.
THE IRANIAN students in the United States did not trust Iranian news broadcasting because they thought the news had been censored by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi or former Prime Minister Shaphouk Rakhitian, Hossen said.
ment of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan,
who was supported by the Ayatollah
Khomeini.
Hosein said, "I Iranians could not trust the Iranian television and radio when the Shah was in power or when Baktırt was in power. So nobody cared what the broadcasts
"After the revolution we were getting the true news and it surprised everybody," Hossein said. "None of us had had this experience.
"On Wednesday the representative of Khomeini said on the radio that this station does not belong to any government and does not support any government. It is free, everybody can come and criticize any kind of government on the air."
HOSEIN IS a member of a nationwide Iranian organization called the Moslem Student Association, which supports the government of Bazargan and Khomeini.
"We felt if the people of the United States understood the revolution then they would understand it."
Mohammad Razani, Tehran, Iran,
graduate student, said he thought the
lecture was an excellent class.
Iranian students who demonstrated in this country against the shah wanted to give Americans information that could not be found in the American media, Taghi Ahmadian, Isfah, Iran, graduate student, said.
"I am going to be an electrical engineer and I have friends who will become physics professors. If Islam is against moderation, what the hell are we doing here?" he hung.
THE AMERICAN government has had its own interim government, always like those of the French.
For example, Hossein said, it disturbed him to hear the American media say the Iranian revolution was opposed to modernization.
revolution because of the American government's involvement in Iran.
"The government wants the oil from Iran and to get the oil, it had to have someone to put pressure on the Iranian people and the shah did this.
"You must distinguish between the government and the people. Because we knew that the American people were friendly, just like people in any place in the world, there was no reason to think if we go to United States we would have enemies around us."
"We did not criticize the people but the government," he said.
Although Iranian students worked to educate Americans about the revolution, the students said they wished they could have done more to support it.
"I don't consider myself as an active member of the revolution because I wasn't in the country and I did not do the thing I wanted to do," Ms. Goodman, like fight in Iran, "Razani said."
"BUT WE tried to give true information about the revolution to the American people and as well as to some other Iranian students. We really did not contribute too much but we tried to do as much as we could. I really feel kind of guilty."
He said, "All of us are eager to go back to help the revolution build up our society.
"Our duty as students is to work hard and
make good grades so we can help Iran when
they are at war."